Dec 5, 2018 | Procrastination, Productivity
25 mins on, 5 mins off, 25 mins on, 5 mins off… You may have heard me speak about this before and I think it is worth coming back to. The Pomodoro productivity technique (1) is one that I go back to again and again as it can save my day. The idea is you set a timer...
Dec 4, 2018 | Procrastination, Productivity
When I was a child, it seemed like ages before Christmas came. With a blink of an eye, 2018 is almost done. Why is that time seems to go more quickly as we get older? There seems to be a few theories behind this. One is that the percentage of time we have lived plays...
Dec 1, 2018 | Procrastination, Productivity
Would you rather have tried and failed or not tried at all for fear of failing? My friend Heidi sent me a suggestion for a blog post. She said that she often tried to fail – even daily or at least several times a week. She kept a list on her phone about what she...
Nov 30, 2018 | Happiness, Productivity
On the 11th December 2018, I’m offering a webinar to help people who are thinking of setting up a side business. I worked for a bank for 13 years in IT, client advisory and business management. In the 2009 financial crisis, my job situation changed and I hit...
Nov 28, 2018 | Productivity, Vision
Can you do a handstand? My accountability partner Mike turned up this morning with a strange looking device. It looked like a sledge and a stool. He brought it as a prop for his Toastmaster speech. When you turn up with such a thing, of course I wanted a demo. So he...
Nov 25, 2018 | Accountability, Productivity
I spent the weekend with amazing ladies who are part of a mastermind group I belong to. We rented a cool, quirky and unusual airBnB flat surrounded by nature. Armed with our laptops, chocolate, a bottle or two and the intention to grow our businesses in 2019, we were...
